An enormous denial of the humanity of an enormous class of human beings?
- Their humanity can be denied and their right to life denied by silence.
- Their humanity can be affirmed and their right to life denied by unlawful edicts.
- What the "pro-choice" American does not believe is that a human fetus is as fully a human life as Uncle Charlie.
Does the pro-choice person really believe as Scalia claims, or is that a pretense for murder?
In the 1960s, even Planned Parenthood preferred contraception (conception prevention) to abortion, because abortion was clearly viewed as ethically wrong.
Schizophrenia, in this case, is the triumph of emotion over reason.
Only the most radicalized defenders of serial killing hold that the woman has an unalienable right to kill an alive unborn child at any age during pregnancy. The majority of those defending the right to abortion do so on the grounds that 1) the unborn are not yet fully a person, or 2) the woman has a right to self preservation (and they want the vagueness to stand, self-preservation I mean, as in right to end life supporting if the child is inconvenient), or some combination of 1 & 2 ... atypical schizoid liberal approach to an issue.
Logically, the only humane reason for legal termination of a pregnancy is self defense, but of course such should not carry an automatic death sentence for the 'other' human in the equation. I believe there may be means to reach a compromise on abortion policy in America if approached from the logical side of 'self defense'.